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  • Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again

    From Computer Nerd Kev@3:633/10 to All on Monday, December 22, 2025 15:53:54
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On 22 Dec 2025 10:50:06 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On 20 Dec 2025 17:38:15 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    I find journalctl unclean in all the most important respects ...

    If that's what your system is using to record its per-user log
    files, then your choices are either a) learn to use it, or b)
    switch to a different distro.

    Already done b), and in fact on Raspberry Pi I have the
    (non-Systemd) syslog daemon started manually only for debugging, so
    normally there are no such logs at all.

    So what happens to the diagnostic messages from GUI apps that you run?

    They go to the framebuffer console X is started from (Ctrl-Alt-F1),
    unless they were started from a terminal window. But those messages
    aren't sent to syslog by the GUI applications, maybe your systems
    have something extra which does that when GUI programs are started?

    Syslog messages go nowhere if there's no syslog daemon running.

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, December 22, 2025 20:00:01
    On 22 Dec 2025 10:50:06 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On 20 Dec 2025 17:38:15 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    I find journalctl unclean in all the most important respects ...

    If that's what your system is using to record its per-user log
    files, then your choices are either a) learn to use it, or b)
    switch to a different distro.

    Already done b), and in fact on Raspberry Pi I have the
    (non-Systemd) syslog daemon started manually only for debugging, so
    normally there are no such logs at all.

    So what happens to the diagnostic messages from GUI apps that you run?

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 11:00:01
    On 22 Dec 2025 15:53:54 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    So what happens to the diagnostic messages from GUI apps that you
    run?

    They go to the framebuffer console X is started from (Ctrl-Alt-F1),
    unless they were started from a terminal window. But those messages
    aren't sent to syslog by the GUI applications, maybe your systems
    have something extra which does that when GUI programs are started?

    I never said they were.

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  • From candycanearter07@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, December 25, 2025 20:00:02
    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:57 this Sunday (GMT):
    On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 22:28:53 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:

    Copying a YouTube URL into vlc media player causes an error, which starts with
    Your input can't be opened:
    VLC is unable to open the MRL 'https://rr2---sn-nvopjoxu-25ve.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1765254131&ei=k083aZHbLNaMlu8PvrCu0As&ip=50.1.20.31&id=o-AJ-TWnr5nbiu1saDbbnTkT--M44S09bXDdhPGEg1........
    but I suppose that some deliberate access control by Youtube.

    Could just be that VLC?s attempt at extracting media URLs from YouTube
    isn?t as up-to-date as that in a dedicated downloader like youtube-dl,
    yt-dlp etc al.

    You could get the media URL from one of those, and then see if VLC
    will play it.


    If you're willing to try another player, mpv can play youtube videos if
    yt-dlp is installed.
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